Hi neal62,
I totally agree with your point. But in my opinion, ALWIL team should more focus and add more other malware (besides general viruses/worms/trojans) such as spyware, adware to VPS file and should more quickly add them. I've noticed that NOD32 started detect more and more spyware/adware-like in my collection (I sent them to ALWIL but almost of them haven't yet added to VPS file). Sometimes it's hard to tell the average users what's the difference between type of malware that Avast focuses on or what is the real threats so when Avast fails to what others do, Avast can be bad in users' opinion.